Masande Ntshanga

1986–

Masande Ntshanga is a South African novelist, poet and publisher, born in East London in 1986 and raised partly in Mdantsane and Bhisho in the former Ciskei. At the University of Cape Town he studied film and media and English before an MA in creative writing. His story Space won the first PEN International New Voices Award (2013). His first novel, The Reactive (2014), about three Cape Town friends selling antiretroviral drugs, received a Betty Trask Award in 2018. His second, Triangulum (2019), mixes science fiction with South African history, and in 2020 he founded the small press MDL SEE.

Timeline of Masande Ntshanga’s life

Works

• The Reactive (2014)

Prizes

• The Reactive — Betty Trask Prize and Awards 2018: Awards